OVERVIEW

The Macintosh Secure File Server for Mac OS X(MSFSX) is a set of client software that allows a Macintosh computer running OS X to use AFS file space by connecting to a translator server machine. Each person enrolled or employed at NC State University is given at least 50 MB of disk space (a.k.a UNITY Account) in the campus AFS system to use for publishing Web pages and for sharing and storing files. The MSFSX provides an easy way to save and copy files to AFS. The technology is similar to that used in Apple's .Mac (formally iTools/iDisk) service.

MSFSX software can be downloaded for free from the university's servers. Click on the following link below to download:

• Mac Secure File Server for Mac OS X

***NOTE: You may need Stuffit Expander installed on your machine in order to decompress the archive file. To download a FREE copy of Stuffit Expander, go to Aladdin System's website at http://www.stuffit.com/expander/download.html

For detailed instructions on installing MSFSX, please read the following instructions:

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

After downloading MSFSX from the server, the file should decompress automatically and you should see a disk icon mounted on your desktop called "Macintosh Secure File Server."

Double click on the disk icon and a window should open up and look something like this:

To install, double click in the msfsx.pkg icon. After you double click on the icon, the install process will start. The first thing it will ask you to do is authenticate with your Mac OS X username and password:

After you authenticate,the installer will take you to the next screen. Click on Continue to move on to the next step:

After clicking on Continue, the installer will ask you were you would like to install the MSFSX software. Be sure to select the Volume/Disk that is running Mac OS X and click on Continue:

The next step in the installation process is to do what the program says! "Click Upgrade to perform a basic installation of this software package."

Now, the installer program will install the following files on your machine:

/Library/FileSystems/AppleShare/Authentication/KerberosAFPPlugin.uamx and /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos

After the installer runs, it should tell you that "The software was successfully installed." Click on Close and you are done! No restart is required.

USING MSFSX

Now that you have finished installing MSFSX, let's give it quick test drive! Make sure that you are in the Finder by clicking on the background of the desktop. Find and select the "Go" menu between "View" and "Window" menus in the menu bar. For there, select "Connect to Server..." or you can just press Command-K (Apple Key and K):

After you select "Connect to Server..." or hit Command-K, a window will appear prompting you to enter a server address. afp://afp.ncsu.edu/ is the name of the server should be typed in the address box. After typing in the address, click on "Connect" to continue:

After clicking on "Connect," a window will appear prompting you for your UNITY/EOS username and password. Type in your UNITY/EOS username and password and click on "OK."

After clicking on "OK," a window will appear asking you which volume you would like to mount. By default, "Home" is your UNITY AFS space.

ex. /afs/unity/users/l/loginid/

Click on "Home" and then click on "OK" to continue:

***NOTE: The list of volumes can be customized to fit your needs. You can create a text file called "AppleVolumes" and place it into your UNITY account. Each line of the file should contain the full AFS path and what you want to call it. For exampe, if I wanted to have my AFS space appear as 'My AFS Space" instead of "Home", it would look something like this:

/afs/unity/users/l/loginid/ "My AFS Space"

And if I wanted to also create a link to my locker space and call it "My Locker," the line I would type into my AppleVolumes file would look like the following:

/afs/unity/lockers/users/l/loginid/ "My Locker"

An icon called "Home" should now be mounted on your desktop. The icon should look like the following:

To access your AFS volume, double click on the "Home" icon on your desktop and all of your files in your AFS space will appear in a window:

Once you are finished with your mounted AFS volume, you can unmount it by clicking on it and hitting the Command-E(Apple E) keys or by simply dragging it to the trash can in your Dock:

Now that your volume is unmounted from the desktop, you will have to logout out of Kerberos. There are 4 different ways that you can do this.

The first way is if you are running Mac OS X 10.2.x, you can use the GUI(Graphical User Interface) Kerberos application located in the following path:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Kerberos.app

Once the program is up, click on the "Destroy Tickets" button and quit out of the program.

Another way to log out of Kerberos is to use the Terminal program in Mac OS X. The Terminal can be found in the following location:

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Double click on the Terminal program. Once it is up, type kdestroy at the prompt and hit return. Once that is done, just quit out of the Terminal program.

The last two options to get rid of your Kerberos tickets are to simply Log Out of your computer or restart your machine:

You're Done!!!

NC State Computing Services Help Desk
515-HELP(4357)
help@ncsu.edu

created by Alby Rose, last modified on 2/25/03